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Stories of ridiculous excess are nothing new – perhaps they are even OK if you can afford them. This story from News Australia really takes the Micheal.

A MILLIONAIRE in northern China paid four million yuan ($A695,330) for a dog and ordered 30 luxury cars to come to the airport to greet her and the animal, local media reports. The woman and her new pet – a black Tibetan mastiff – flew into Xi’an, the capital of Shaanxi province, A convoy of 30 black Mercedes-Benz cars, led by two sports utility vehicles, drove to the airport on Wednesday to pick up the pair, who had arrived from the Tibetan-populated province of Qinghai in China’s northwest. Photos of the event posted with the report showed a committee of dog-lovers holding up a long red banner welcoming the mastiff to Xi’an.

One Expensive Dog

Now I’m wondering whether the car hire firm had to lend their whole fleet to cope with this woman’s demand?

A slightly touching point made at the bottom of the article reads like this…

Research by the Hurun Report, a magazine that tracks China’s wealthiest, revealed in April that 825,000 people had personal wealth of over 10 million yuan ($1.74 million), or 0.06 per cent of the population.

The vast majority of these millionaires have said the global financial crisis has not had any impact on their lifestyle, the research said.

Nice life if you can get it…?

Mark Butler was pretty love-sick that’s for sure. He wanted his future wife Tonya (and the world) to know how much he adored her, and yes he did succeed.

After agreeing with his Partner that they wanted to use a luxury car rental(prestige car), the 27 year old from Basingstoke decided to make his own amendments to the wedding day transport.

Now I’m unsure whether this is the sweetest or tackiest gesture in the world, but either way it made her seemingly happy. Here’s the deal, the ‘smitten’ train driver decided to plaster ‘Tonya & Mark Just Married 23rd July 2009′ sign-written along the side. (See Photo Below!). Then this is the part which I really find tacky – he then proceeded to have the ‘happy couples’ faces emblazoned along the side of the VW Passat.

The stunt was kept a secret from the other half with only the wedding day photographer and best man in on the gag. After the ceremony held in Basingstoke Registry Office, Mark then presented the ‘gift’ to his recently married wife for photos to be taken in a local War Memorial park, which seems to be a fairly strange place to have photos taken.

Nice or Tacky

Luckily for him the hard work paid off, the new Mrs. Butler was thrilled by the thoughtful token…

I didn’t know anything about it and I was shocked because I couldn’t imagine where the idea came from. I think it just shows how much he loves me, especially with the amount of thought and planning that went into it.

Apparently the car has been getting a lot of attention and beeping from fellow motorists

Tonya’s final words :

…It’s been fantastic.

Civil Servants from Wales have really frustrated me this week after costing tax payers £88,000 in fines relating to traffic incidents, it has been revealed by Compare Car Rentals.

Civil Servants clearly can't drive Cars

This Follows revelations in June that Welsh Civil Servant had run up £5 million whilst using local Car Hire services, whether this included Van Hire for the Local Councils.

The data is taken from the Freedom of Information Act which was publicised by members of the Welsh Assembly Government(WAG) who managed to run up bills of £10,732 by failing to fill up the rental vehicles before returning them.

Kirsty Williams who was amongst the first to expose WAGS ludicrous, was outraged at the WAGS fines calling them ‘shocking’, especially as families in Wales are having to ‘tighten their belts’ due to the current recession.

People in Wales are having to balance their budgets and watch every penny, it is vital that Governments do the same, Too much is already spent on car hire and it seems that civil servants don’t care that taxpayers are picking up the tab for fines imposed for not refuelling.

A spokesman for the WAG admitted that hire cars should be returned with a full tank and that a review was underway thanks to the current situation and that ‘arrangements’ are being made to ensure car hire costs are as low as possible.

Quotes Taken From Wales Online.